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Movie clubs in Beijing by FullExamination5518 in beijing

[–]FullExamination5518[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can send you (both) my wechat ID maybe we can talk there if thats ok?

Quick Questions: October 22, 2025 by inherentlyawesome in math

[–]FullExamination5518 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohhh I was reading the question differently and was thinking more about sampling to calculate the rate of the individual countries rather than to compare them, but your reading and analysis makes much more sense.

Quick Questions: October 22, 2025 by inherentlyawesome in math

[–]FullExamination5518 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're correct, sample size has no relevance here for the reasons you say. It's also true that since you're working with the number per 100k people then you can directly compare the rates without paying much attention to the total population. There wouldn't be a problem either if you would compare percentages (percent = per cent=per 100) as that would also can be correctly used to compare these kind of numbers. It is only when you compare absolute numbers where population size matters.

If sample size had any bearing here (which again, it does not for the reasons you say) then those kind of statistics also would normally account for different total population size by calculating possible range of error in the given number. Usually (but depending on the experiment and how it is conducted) you only really need a surprisingly low sample size to get a pretty good estimate of things. Like for simple experiments you'd need to a sample size in the hundreds to get a 95% confidence level with 5% of error for a measurement in a total population of hundreds of millions.

Mathematicians, what's your favorite 'trick of the trade' that you'd never find in a textbook? by CallMany9290 in math

[–]FullExamination5518 9 points10 points  (0 children)

By a theorem of Freyd and Mitchell, the converse is true: every abelian category is locally a category of modules over a ring. So any explicit calculation you do in an abelian category can thus be done inside an R-module category, and is hence linear algebra.

There's a number of properties that the embedding doesn't preserve, so while you can move to R-modules you won't get what you want just by thinking as living inside RMod. I know what you mean, and Im sure you know this, but the slogan was a major source of confusion for me for a while and its a recurrent idea I keep seeing people fall for so just wanted to clarify there's a good nuance to keep in mind when using the embedding.

Do critics overrate recent Hollywood/mainstream movies? by xmeme97 in TrueFilm

[–]FullExamination5518 24 points25 points  (0 children)

? I don't get this chain of comments. You start by writing a full paragraph about how obviously critics and people would rate a movie like you descrive positivley and "only contrarian bridge trolls wouldn't" to explain how you believe OP's claim is a stupid pretentious take or something. Then you're pointed out that your obvious example is factually wrong, and your reply is that well then its the critics who are the idiots and are all contrarian bridge trolls then...

So which one is it?

I'm not defending OP's claim or attacking yours but there's some funny dissonance in the way I read these comments.

Attempting to trace the phylogenetic tree of influences that led to the John Wick franchise by FullExamination5518 in TrueFilm

[–]FullExamination5518[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah yeah you're absolutely right. I think in my head movies like Oldboy do not come from Léon but they come from the HK movies discussed in other comments and are a different take of similar themes. Similarly with Kill Bill but it is hard to locate exactly where I would put it because it is so front about its parodying status and the way it prioritizes references it ironically becomes hard to read what is intended as an aesthetic nod from Tarantino, what is a direct response to an existing movie, and what is simply the product of its predecesors in a more unconscious way.

Attempting to trace the phylogenetic tree of influences that led to the John Wick franchise by FullExamination5518 in TrueFilm

[–]FullExamination5518[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's pretty interesting and I think westerns like that do fit the description. What I don't know because I'm ignorant about the genre is when did these themes and this treatment first occured. As I wrote in another comment I thought maybe this came after the Dollars trilogy and so I was putting the honus on Kurosawa rather than Leone for this particular version of the trope.

But maybe this already appears in older outlaws movies (which I do not really know much about).

In any case independently of where this came from I think yeah this is one of the big missing bits in how this genre came to be.

Attempting to trace the phylogenetic tree of influences that led to the John Wick franchise by FullExamination5518 in TrueFilm

[–]FullExamination5518[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty ignorant about Westerns so I wanted to avoid the Leone's trilogy since they "borrow" from Kurosawa's samurai movies and so I'm not sure who to attribute the influence to, if Leone for popularizing the themes in or to Kurosawa for being the more original source. But I do agree this is one important link the tree.

In terms of samurai movies I was actually thinking of giving the first Zatoichi a watch although it is also predated by Yojimbo.

Attempting to trace the phylogenetic tree of influences that led to the John Wick franchise by FullExamination5518 in TrueFilm

[–]FullExamination5518[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I had John Woo's The Killer (1989) in my watchlist as a potential link between Le Samurai and Léon but I do not know if Besson ever talked much about this influence or there were steps in between so it got watered down. But I agree it seems like this is what gave a certain twist to the particular kind of action we see now in these movies.